How long does it take to read The Detective Story?
An Introduction to the World's Greatest Whodunit Sleuths and Their Creators
Saul Schwartz, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, William Brittain, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Stuart Palmer, James Yaffe, John Ball, Rex Stout, Hugh Pentecost, Bret Harte
The Detective Story by Saul Schwartz, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, William Brittain, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Stuart Palmer, James Yaffe, John Ball, Rex Stout, Hugh Pentecost, Bret Harte takes about 8 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1975. 441 pages, about 121,275 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Annotated anthology textbook of detective stories for American high schools, containing literary history and criticism with student exercises designed to deepen similar literary sensibilities.
Subjects: air guns, anonymity, attempted murder, baritsu, coal tar, deformities
